If you had a kingdom and you could decide whom live in it, what would be your criteria to select the members? If you had to start from scratch, you will need to pay close attention to every single detail in order to have the best kingdom of all the kingdoms. But how would you know what is the right criteria if you have never created a kingdom before? Well, this is the part when in order to find inspiration and some guidance, you look at other kingdoms to see what they have, what they are lacking, what you find appealing, and things you would absolutely don’t want to have in yours. When you start moving forward in your investigation, you find yourself astonish with all sorts of kingdoms and the immerse diversity in all of them, what amaze you the most is that, even when the members of the kingdoms are what define each of them, they are there for a particular reason: their king. Since everyone has free will, they have the power to decide if they want to stay in your kingdom or no, but in order for them to take this decision you have to invite them on the first place. Looking at the situation in a realist perspective, you just want to invite into your kingdom people whom you can effectively communicate with, who share your vision, people whom you can trust and have the guarantee that will have your back if needed. Even when you did your research and you looked at other kingdoms, you automatically came to the conclusion that every kingdom is constitute based on the kings needs and wants.

When thinking about kings and kingdoms, the first one that automatically comes to everyone’s mind is the Lion, whom of course, is the traditional King of the Jungle. Characterizing the average king stereotype, the lion is aggressive, he doesn’t let anyone get above him and this can be for two reasons; first because he is insecure and partially aware that someone way much better and with a better attitude than him can come and take his place, and second because being the King is the only things he actually knows how to do. In order for the lion to triumph in his kingdom, he has to partner with the right animals; his first pick are of course the lioness. Even when they are the same species, the lion knows he is above her. Same situation applies with cheetahs, tigers, and all those big kitties. He also partners with hyenas; he doesn’t fear them, but he is smart enough to know that if they allied together they can bring him down. And even when is very sad to admit it, we already know what happens to the rest of the animals…

Just as a warning message this might be the best post ever written. Now that you know, jumping into one of the most magical lists ever invented, THE BUCKET LIST. Everybody has one, (even robots). They could be either written in paper or in the mystic subconscious of our minds. A Bucket List is the ultimate Road Map to life, the one that includes all of the highlights. One of the big tragedies of the world is to go through life without this crazy uncontrollable inspiration that comes from sprinting after your Bucket List. Once you start making progress on the ultimate pursuit of your dreams, you don´t feel like a regular animal anymore, you are unstoppable, indomitable, you are a Magic Sloth.

The Magic Sloth is all about Living Life by Saving Time. In our other post “How To Do Anything“, we explained, (after making you laugh a couple of times), that any endeavor can be divided into four key components, “Why” being the first. Also being the most important, the boss, the essential ingredient in your recipe. Is the lemon in the lemonade, it is the founding father of any country, the Creator of any Genesis. You can change the world with it, but there is little you can do without it. Simon Sinek in his genius book “Start With Why” breaks our actions into three components What, How and Why. These are universal, and trust me , applicable to all of us.

Imagine for a second the following three scenarios as your potential life accomplishments:

What if at the end of your life you could rally a nation and make them believe in something higher?

What if at the end of your life your biggest accomplishment is painting people, but disproportionately?

What if at the end of your life your biggest accomplishment is just landing a job as a stockbroker?

Living life is awesome. You feel like you are floating, inspired, dreamy, energetic, ready to take over the entire world. We have all been there at some point. It is not difficult to find these moments in life, the problem is staying there. We have a lot of diversity on our posts about Living Life and this one does not prove any different. If you have no plans for this Friday night or Saturday morning is time to explore a brand new world! The world of coding!

You might be completely prejudiced against me, the fantastic author of this article, thinking I am a geek trying to geekify the rest of the universe. Even though I am a nerd, I actually have no technical background, unless Finance for you is the equivalent of creating websites. Then why “Code A Better Life”? Basic code and technology is not a skill for some, it is a foundational skill. I did not study Finance because I wanted to become the next Jordan Belfort even though, throwing midgets sounds so appealing. I studied Finance, because I had no idea of what I wanted to do with my life. Been there? However, I thought that whatever I choose to do would be successful if I had sharp Financial skills. Which means that no matter your field, you need finance to Live Life. Same applies for technology, whatever you are currently doing would be drastically, dramatically, excitingly and impressively different if you had even just a tiny bit of tech expertise.

(Warning: If you are here I am assuming you are a Batman fan. If that is not the case, abort, you have much bigger problems to deal with in your life right now.)

If you are mutual respect, if not, stay, there might still be hope for you. The Magic Sloth is all about Saving Time and Living Life, and what better way to live life than becoming batman!

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Lazarus Pit

I am assuming if you are reading this post you conform a part of the 12,100 monthly searches for “Lazarus Pit” on Google Adwords, (so many, right? In order to do a fair comparison with current events of our time, only an average of 3,600 people searched for “Trump sucks” and 1,600 for “Hillary Sucks” per month on Google in the last 12 months. Which is pretty low compared to how often I hear that everyday. Enough with politics, we have some brief catching up to do, but as always The Magic Sloth will make this so simple for you that you will feel the universe is talking to you, (no, posts don’t get you high). Starting at the very beginning or maybe a little later since we are all about saving time, Lazarus is a biblical character. If you had to go to Sunday school at some point in your life this is the guy who was dead, (like rotting and smelling bad dead), but was raised by Jesus. Now, moving away from the Biblical universe into DC’s, we have this crazy dude, Ra’s Al Ghul who is a bad ass, portrayed by bad ass Liam Neeson in Batman Begins. In the comics Ra’s would take his daily shower, (or dip) in the Lazarus Pit, (called that because of, you guessed it, Lazarus in the Bible). This pit would heal all his wounds besides making him live and rule his bad ass ninjas forever. (Thanks God our politicians don’t have one of those).

Your perception of this post will have a lot to with how well you know our king, The Magic Sloth. If you don’t know him pretty well, you probably are expecting another attempt to the eternal quest for revolutionary instant 6 pack solution. The Magic Sloth does believe in magic, (what a surprise), but it is too lazy to embark in the search of such an elusive mystery. The Magic Sloth in this particular situation will do something remarkable, something extraordinary, he will teach you what you already know. Yes, you can label us as completely insane, but you will have to do the same with the genius George Orwell. Besides doing the tragic mistake of not including a Sloth in his classic Animal Farm, (unforgivable), he truly was a fantastic novelist. One of his most famous quotes is:

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious

Think about it, why would we try to beat other excellent sites like BodyBuiliding.com that has an article on the same subject with much more science and all that gym jargon. Simple, we are not trying! We are not here to insult your intelligence, the basics of the 6 pack are known to all, however the execution is a complete different matter. That is where our Lazy Quest Begins. What if we told you, you can achieve your belly goals with just 3 1 hour workouts per week? How you ask? Easy. Know that lifting, Cardio and abs are the least important part of the process.

If you are among the crazy animals in the jungle bold enough to assume leadership, I have good news for you. Like everything The Magic Sloth explains, it is very simple to understand. We actually divided it into 6 bullet points, and since we have in common the fact that we are sooooo lazy, we just included the bare minimum that you need to become a Top Leader in the Jungle! Each bullet point is accompanied by the most fantastic book in the subject, (just click on it), in case you still don’t understand the Sloth life and are an overachiever. (Don’t worry you are still welcome here).

1. Take Control Of Your Thoughts

Without a doubt the first step into becoming a leader is being in control of your attitude and thoughts. It is not a pessimist the one who assumes the worst could happen every day, when he is certain that regardless, he is in full control of his attitude and happiness. The Devil in Milton’s epic summarized it best: “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” I don’t know how well that worked for him… at least he had the right idea.

If I did not just blow your mind let Frankl take a shot with one of the best books ever written, in which you will learn how to find happiness a Nazi Concentration Camp. (Literally)